Christiane Freytag
Gleiss LutzGleiss Lutz' procurement team places a particular focus on the healthcare sector and therefore routinely assists clinics, pharmaceutical companies and health insurance companies with various procurement issues. The advice includes tenders for IT outsourcing and drug discount agreements as well as review proceedings and cooperations related to PPP projects. The company is also experienced in advising on ePA (electronic patient records) and other digital projects. Counsel Christiane Freytag is an experienced contact for issues relating to procurement compliance. The team is led by Marc Ruttloff, who is experienced in ESG issues.
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Testimonials
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'Many years of expert knowledge in the field of pharmaceutical discount agreements and European procurement law to be observed in this context.'
'Marco König always provides timely, competent, friendly and precise advice.'
'Gleiss Lutz offers full service in procurement law and seamlessly incorporates all interfaces and all necessary legal areas into the advice, so that the client always experiences advice from a single source. Where necessary, the team offers weekly cost feedback and budgets divided into task areas with weekly monitoring. This gives the client full cost control and the opportunity to shift partial budgets transparently. The client feels in good hands when receiving advice from the procurement team.'
'Extremely harmonious and excellent team, incredible experience and expertise, always available, always to the point. Excellent collaboration that is really fun. Above all, everyone thinks for themselves and has the bigger picture in mind.'
'Marco König: Always approachable, gives very thoughtful advice and always has the client's interests in mind. He is very prudent and at home across all, really all, legal areas. Working with him is extremely pleasant, he works in a committed, reliable manner and, above all, thinks about and considers everything. Not to mention the legal excellence and topicality.'
'Highest level of professionalism, company relevance and precision with TOP response speed.'
'Marco König and Christiane Freytag are absolute professionals and work on content with the highest company references almost 24/7.'
'Enormous expertise and very high speed.'
Key clients
- AOK-Bundesverband und die 11 AOKs
- Mercedes-Benz AG
- kubus IT GbR
Work highlights
- Advice on the outsourcing of data center services from kubus IT, an IT service provider for several statutory health insurance companies, including commissioning of various cloud models.
- Advice to all AOKs under the leadership of AOK Baden-Württemberg on the now 29th and soon 30th tranche of the Europe-wide tenders of the AOKs for pharmaceutical discount agreements in the generics sector.
- Advising AOK Federal Association on the electronic patient file (frontend, backend and operation) and on issues related to the telematics infrastructure in German health law as well as advice on the tendering and negotiation of essential contracts for this.
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